Mac President Infinity – Version Amundsen – 1.6.5

(Note: President Forever 2016 has been renamed to President Infinity.)

The second Mac version of President Infinity has been released!

This version contains a large number of changes and fixes, mostly to the user interface.

Note: this is a Test Release. There are known problems (described below). If you encounter another problem, please let us know and we will add it to the list.

How to install:

If you are a Kickstarter backer with a Mac P4E16 reward, shortly you will receive an e-mail notifying you the Test Release is available. If not, you can contact us. Alternately, you can go here.

You can then go to the web-site, and request a download e-mail.

Download the PresidentInfinity_v165.app.dmg file through the President Infinity link in the download e-mail.

You may get a warning when downloading or installing the game. This is because we haven’t received certification from Apple yet. We plan to do this soon, but in the meantime you might get a message such as the above.

Run it, which will create a new virtual drive on your desktop.

Open the drive (if it doesn’t automatically open), and move the ‘President Infinity′ app file to your Applications folder.

(You can also move the previous President Forever 2016 file from the Applications folder to the trash.)

You can then move the dmg file to the trash if desired.

Requirements:

OS X 10.7 Lion or higher.

A few things that haven’t been implemented yet:

Mac functionality to close a window instead of quit an application from the main window.

Sounds are not complete.

Help file is not complete.

Campaign Editor is not activated.

Images have pixelation on Retina displays.

DMG file will be made more intuitive for install.

Saving might cause an out of memory error on some systems.

If anyone is able to repeatedly open instances of a window (so multiple instances of the same window are showing at the same time), please let me know.

Currently, the Mac version is available only to Kickstarter backers with that reward. We’ll be opening it up once we’ve moved to an official release, including ordering directly from the 270soft site and also from the App Store.

What you can expect next:

Fixing of any remaining bugs for the Mac version as they are reported to us.

For Windows users, a Test Release for Windows fairly soon.

Implementation of remaining rewards from the Kickstarter campaign, which will be fully implemented for the first official release.

Also gameplay balance wise it’s rather easy to win even tho one is not actively campaigning anywhere. I follow a pretty simple routine which is like:

1. max out Debating and Issue Familiarity early (and maintain them)
2. run one big nationwide max production budget TV ad for as long as starting money will allow (and maybe a couple of targeted ads at NH and Iowa)
3. pour tons of CPs into getting nationwide endorsers, and top off a 5 star one with nice bonuses using PIPs as early as possible (like Heritage Foundation for GOP, or whatever the Dem equivalent is).
4. do policy speeches
5. accept all media invites
6. max spin the hell out of every a) successful debate for your guy, b) successful policy speech or media invite for your guy, c) any negative stuff for your main opponents

I also mess around with surrogates and spies sometimes but I don’t think those are primary to success.

Anyways with this strategy Cruz was well on way to winning primary despite pretty much chilling in texas the whole time.

I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work. I think the “Not on Campaign Trail” event is supposed to penalize such behavior but it doesn’t seem to make much difference, and I don’t think dialing that up to be like a huge penalty would be a good solution cuz it’d be rather artificial.

Anthony, I can now run ads against Republicans. I’m not sure why I couldn’t before. But I will say the arrows don’t work on the sides for me so I have to click on a name and scroll down with my keyboard arrow.

Also, the game randomly freezes as I noted above both in the primaries and general election. When I got to perform activities sometimes like create foot soldiers per state, it just freezes and I have to force quit the app..

One more thing, Anthony..I’m running 10.9.4 iOS with a brand new MacBook Pro and I haven’t been able to finish a campaign whether it be the primaries or the general election because it always randomly crashes or i get the out of memory.. I figured I would tell you the HW/SW I’m using as well if that might assist you.

So I downloaded the most recent beta version and I still cannot make it all the way through the campaign. I played two general election campaigns and one primary. The first time I just froze up and it crashed. The second time I got an access violation error. The third time the entire screen turned into crooked lines and the game crashed.